What could possibly go wrong? Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed Pivot to AI Jun 14, 2025 My letter to reps: META and other platforms running chatbots should have to at least inform people that their chatbot chat messages are being put in a public feed complete with stuff that’s probably […]
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Almost all the AI boosters seem at least a tad delusional to me.
So how do the techno rapture believing moderators of the pro-AI subreddit tell a difference?
Chatbots are addictive like social media, gambling, and video games, but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I noticed the addictive aspect of the chatbot 2 years ago, and warned that I suspected it wasn’t a coincidence it seemed to have aspects that reminded me of the game Diablo.
I was on The Letterhack Presents with Matt Strackbein to talk about why FAFO doesn’t matter because there’s no Invisible Hand of the Market. .
DOES FAFO EVEN MATTER? – #MAGA REFUSES TO #LEARN W/ CHLOE HUMBERT! – The Letterhack Among other aspects, we talked about how people didn’t learn from the pandemic, and once you F around and find out unvaccinated, it’s too late for the kids who died to “learn” anything from such an experience.
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]
AI is shoddy, and it’s used as a shadowbanning assist.
I decided to read this book “Empire of AI” after an interview with the author Karen Hao on the Better Offline podcast, which covers the technical and financial no there there of AI. And in this interview by Tim Miller at the Bulwark with Karen Hao, they talk about environmental impacts, but I think this […]
Signs it’s a scam.
“Don’t respond to unexpected calls, emails, texts, or social media messages that ask for money or personal information.”
Feeding the trolls maybe gets you clicks, but rewarding stalkers with attention is dangerous.
Just don’t do it, it’s not worth it.
People who care about public health: stay focused on fundamentals regarding vaccines.
And definitely nobody should be getting medical information from media interviews with RFKJr either because he’s not even a doctor and says stuff he’s pulling out of the air, or somewhere else.
Average people are not aware of what right wing media people tell their audiences.
The lies being told on social media, where most people get their news, as well as on right-wing news sources, radio shows, cable tv, and youtube, are beyond what most sensible people can fathom.
Anyone citing pandemic profiteering anonymous accounts on the app formerly known as twitter should stop.
Anonymous covid influencer accounts on “X” (twitter) who post affiliate links to bogus & junk covid products should be dumped as information sources of any kind.
The Trump Social accusation of supposedly illegal “collusive boycott” against Elon Musk is a threat of lawfare.
Billionaires are already using antitrust law to suppress community organizing resistance to their authoritarian corporate hostile takeover of democracy and personal freedoms.
Don’t fall for propaganda shaming people into inaction.
There are always people who will mock civic engagement, and you better believe that the opposition is the beneficiary when people get shamed into inaction.
Facebook is censoring articles about tech tycoons plans for monarchy.
Same memo that I included in my February 7th newsletter.
Online troll farm mercenaries to be hired by US government to police speech online.
There are operatives celebrating a boon in their job market.
Many will be following the politics, not the science.
Many scientists, medical professionals, and public health leadership followed the politics when it came to masks in the pandemic, or vaccines, and even were swayed by right-wing advertising that targeted liberals. And all this will only get worse now that the federal purse in the US is held out for those who are willing to sell out patients and public health.
Yes, shadowbanning is real.
It’s probably happening on all the platforms, and most people probably don’t even know it’s happening to them.
People are not even talking about the same things and this is dangerous.
I don’t think most people realize that many times we think we’re talking about the same thing, but in fact, we’re not actually on the same page with the underlying premise or even basic facts.
Curtail use of social media and start connecting with people personally.
The big public social media platforms are not the entirety of the internet.
Don’t lead with a lie.
Most people don’t actually ever see beyond the headline. It’s a problem if someone starts with the thing they’re planning on debunking, and editor’s notes (or community notes) are probably not effective enough because of this reality.